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" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

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" I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. "

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Do The Right Thing

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "